Indian Antiquities: Or, Dissertations, Relative to the Ancient Geographic Divisions, the Pure System of Primeval Theology ... of Hindostan: Compared, Throughout, with the Religion, Laws, Government, and Literature of Persia, Egypt, and Greece, the Whole Intended as Introductory to the History of Hindostan Upon a Comprehensive Scale, Volume 2T. Maurice, 1806 - India |
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... learned philosophers among the antients , con- cerning the SEVEN GATES , emblematical of the SEVEN PLANETS , erected in the MITHRATIC caverns , through which the sidereal metempsychosis was performed ; and contrasts that passage with ...
... learned philosophers among the antients , con- cerning the SEVEN GATES , emblematical of the SEVEN PLANETS , erected in the MITHRATIC caverns , through which the sidereal metempsychosis was performed ; and contrasts that passage with ...
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... learned Hyde , has given the most ample account of Zoroaster and his tenets , informs us , that the word Zend - avesta signifies Fire - kindler . See Prideaux's Con- nections , vol . i . p . 317 , oct . edit . 1721. See also Dr Hyde ...
... learned Hyde , has given the most ample account of Zoroaster and his tenets , informs us , that the word Zend - avesta signifies Fire - kindler . See Prideaux's Con- nections , vol . i . p . 317 , oct . edit . 1721. See also Dr Hyde ...
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... learned work on the Religion of the An- tient Persians , which will still more immedi- ately elucidate the present obscure subject . The reader , who may not have read Dr Hyde's book , nor be acquainted with the profound and stupendous ...
... learned work on the Religion of the An- tient Persians , which will still more immedi- ately elucidate the present obscure subject . The reader , who may not have read Dr Hyde's book , nor be acquainted with the profound and stupendous ...
Page 109
... learned to regulate their cou- duct as to the times and the seasons pro- per for the sowing of grain and the tillage of the ground . In process of time , they formed catalogues of the stars , they arranged them under various classes ...
... learned to regulate their cou- duct as to the times and the seasons pro- per for the sowing of grain and the tillage of the ground . In process of time , they formed catalogues of the stars , they arranged them under various classes ...
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... learned personage , to whose deep researches into the Indian my- thology I have so often had occasion to refer , seems to countenance a similar opinion , when he offers a conjecture that the former deity was in reality Rama , the son of ...
... learned personage , to whose deep researches into the Indian my- thology I have so often had occasion to refer , seems to countenance a similar opinion , when he offers a conjecture that the former deity was in reality Rama , the son of ...
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Page 114 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 347 - And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
Page 215 - And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.
Page 284 - I am Alpha and. Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Page 100 - We must not be surprised," he says, " at finding, on a close examination, that the characters of all the Pagan deities, male and female, melt into each other and at last into one or two ; for it seems a well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses in ancient Rome, and modern Varanes [Benares] mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the Sun, expressed in a variety of ways and by a multitude of fanciful names.
Page 366 - Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians ofChaldea, the land of their nativity...
Page 215 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall; and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
Page 283 - It is not a thing of which a man may say, it hath been, it is about to be, or is to be hereafter: for it is a thing without birth; it is ancient, constant, and eternal, and is not to be destroyed in this its mortal frame.
Page 255 - ... that which is called invisible. The universe, even, having existed, is again dissolved; and now again, on the approach of day, by divine necessity, it is reproduced. That which, upon the dissolution of all things else, is not destroyed, is superior and of another nature from that visibility: it is invisible and eternal. He who is thus called invisible and incorruptible is even he who is called the Supreme Abode ; which men having once obtained, they never more return to earth : that is my mansion.
Page 234 - Thy tears, my child, ill suit the occasion ; we shall all meet again ; be firm ; see the direct road before thee, and follow it. When the big tear lurks beneath thy beautiful eyelashes, let thy resolution check its first efforts to disengage itself. In thy passage over this earth, where the paths are now high, now low, and the true path seldom distinguished, the traces of thy feet must needs be unequal ; but virtue will press thee right onward a.